Quote Originally Posted by Jake98 View Post
I picked some up too, haven't tried them. I was wondering how you go about sharpening a .020" electrode. I'm guessing a fine wheel, very carefully.. maybe in a mechanical pencil like I've heard people say.
I tried it with my HF diamond wheel (see my related threads on it) and even that was too coarse to get a point. I'm guessing that at that thin of a piece, maybe sharpening is unnecessary? Otherwise, Member Tritium has a diamond lapidary that would probably (without any doubt whatsoever) do the job. Only, you would need a quantity of them pre-sharpened and on hand to experiment to any significant degree. It'd be kind of cool to see someone running beads in 18-or 20 gage steel where the heat affected zone was so small that you could just butt the sheets, tack every 2-3 inches, then run a continuous bead with NO distortion. That is the type of experimenting that I like to do the most. Approaching things in a non-conventional way, so hopefully, it becomes the norm, once I prove it can be done. Hey.. a new thread is about to be born!!